Photo: idei.club To create original three-dimensional structures, there is still no material that would cope with this better than drywall. Partitions, interior walls, niches, ledges and ceilings are made from it. Now you can safely create and experiment with shapes and configurations. And we'll tell you how!
Features and Benefits
Plasterboard ceilings will help create a cozy design and atmosphere in the kitchen using different decorative finishes. This material is attractive in price, easy to install and can withstand heavy loads, and the moisture-resistant appearance of this material is perfect for the kitchen space.
Using drywall, you can create a multi-level design and install spotlights or hide unnecessary communications under its niche.
Finishing
After installation is complete, leave the structure for a couple of days, and then inspect it in bright light. If there are roughness and unevenness, go over them with fine sandpaper and clean the surface from dust with a dry brush.
To make the ceiling smooth as ice, the joints and screw heads must be sealed with putty.
To prevent cracks between the slabs, you can insert reinforcing tape. The putty is applied in several layers: each next one only after the previous one has completely dried. When the mixture dries, the seams must be treated with sandpaper.
Decorating such a ceiling is a pleasure. It is first coated with water-based paint, which is then supplemented with acrylic. You need to paint with a wide roller in at least two layers. Blue, green, and brown paints are saturated, so they immediately cover the surface tightly. And if orange, blue or olive paint is applied in one layer, a white surface may be visible in daylight.
Wallpaper sticks well to drywall and can also be used for ceiling decoration.
To create the perfect kitchen ceiling, use plasterboard sheets. There is no need to level the concrete ceiling and think about how to beautifully and discreetly route the wires - just install a structure made of metal and plasterboard, behind which all the shortcomings of the original ceiling will be hidden.
Registration requirements
For small rooms, spot lighting with low light is suitable: from faded to shining. The colors are muted or pastel tones.
If you still decide to use bright colors, then you should not choose acidic colors, because they can have a negative impact on the mood of household members.
Single-level plasterboard ceiling in the kitchen
When using high-quality material, this method is considered the most economical option. Since it is not difficult to install, you can install a plasterboard suspended ceiling in the kitchen yourself.
The finished ceiling covering can be decorated using plaster or paint, while maintaining its traditional appearance.
You can install inconvenient communications into it: electrics, ventilation, parts of the water supply system or lighting. It is possible to zone individual parts of the kitchen using different colors and textures.
For example, the work area can be done in more saturated colors, and the dining area can be made lighter. This will help separate the zones and provide a more comfortable, relaxing environment in the dining area.
An interesting solution for zoning a room would be a “light curtain” using spot lighting at the junction of boundaries. Using liquid paper you can create beautiful three-dimensional drawings.
GKL finishing
The plasterboard sheet itself is of little interest and, in addition, its moisture-resistant version is green, so at least the surface is puttied. Well, then they start finishing.
- Coloring. GKL holds paint perfectly. Moreover, you can not only paint the sheet with one color, but also choose a texture - matte, glossy, “metal-like” or paint a fragment of the ceiling. This decision is completely individual. Of course, you can’t transfer a photograph onto drywall, but with the appropriate skills, it’s quite possible to create an even more realistic image. You can use molding to highlight a rosette or other decorative elements.
- Pasting. Wallpaper has not been a popular choice for a long time, but it depends on the interior. For example, in the Provence style, plasterboard boxes representing ceiling beams are covered with washable wallpaper with a wood pattern. The effect is wonderful. However, today thermal film is more often used, since it is easier to stick, and it is more decorative: it reproduces not only the pattern or texture of a natural material, but also an image.
- Plaster. Any plaster will do: Venetian, textured, silk and even mosaic. So, for the baroque or classic style, they choose Venetian, imitating marble, and in a non-strict high-tech, a fragment decorated with mosaic plaster looks quite non-trivial.
- Tiles are a somewhat radical solution in which the kitchen begins to resemble a bathroom. However, with the right choice - for example, a combination of colored and mirror tiles, this option can look very impressive.
Multi-level ceiling
There are no specific frames and boundaries, a complete flight of fantasy. Large selection of lighting solutions. Using lighting fixtures, you can divide the kitchen into zones and highlight the main zone. A mirror finish is used to help expand the boundaries. A well-executed plasterboard ceiling design in the kitchen is an economical option that can add exclusivity to an ordinary interior.
Advantages and disadvantages
The advantages include:
- the ability to hide surface unevenness, remove wires, pipes and other communications;
- increase sound and heat insulation;
- ease of use, both during installation and operation;
- the material is resistant to mechanical damage;
- the ability to create room zoning and multi-level ceilings;
- acceptable cost of goods.
Plasterboard ceiling with lighting
Lighting plays an important role in many design decisions. Lighting creates a unique kitchen design in which you can relax and enjoy. Without putting in a lot of effort, you can create lighting with your own hands; you just need to have the desire and define a number of tasks.
Lighting designs are:
- with open lighting (implies built-in lighting fixtures or simple hanging ones);
- with hidden lighting (lighting fixtures are mounted in special niches).
When creating lighting, fluorescent or LED lamps are usually used, but other options are also possible.
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Lighting issue
One of the advantages of plasterboard construction is the ability to mount a wide variety of lighting. Before deciding how to make a ceiling, you need to think carefully about lighting: this is an excellent design tool that should not be neglected.
- The backlight is usually an LED strip, fixed along the edge of the second level or in a niche formed between the first and second levels. Neutral white backlighting is most often used. But it can also be colored, especially in the style of techno or futurism.
In the photo, backlighting is used in plasterboard ceilings.
- Built-in lamps - from tiny spotlights to quite solid ones. Their main attraction is their placement at the level of the ceiling plane or slightly below: such light is concentrated on the illuminated area and does not create penumbra or glare.
- Suspension devices – chandeliers and various types of lamps. Their role is similar to that of a lighting fixture in a conventional kitchen.
It is entirely possible to combine all methods in order to create multi-level lighting, when each area of the kitchen is illuminated by its own group of devices. This is not only more economical, but also much more effective.
Another advantage of gypsum boards is the ability to use any lamps - from incandescent to LED. GCR does not react to heat, so it tolerates proximity even to hot halogen lamps.
Plasterboard ceilings are a universal solution for any room: small and spacious, with a high or low ceiling, with the correct proportions or the most inappropriate shape - with niches or arches.
Plasterboard ceiling for a small room
The small size of the kitchen ceiling cannot become an obstacle to the creation of a plasterboard structure. You need to choose a suitable design.
- for low rooms, it is preferable to choose a single-level ceiling.
- Playing with lighting schemes and lighting the cornice will help diversify a boring single-level ceiling.
- Light colors will help expand the space.
- glossy textures will visually increase the area of the room.
Varieties
Types
As noted earlier, there are several types of plasterboard ceiling structures, the choice of which directly depends on the desired effect and area of the room.
One level
simplest
This is an easy-to-make look that will suit any type of kitchen. Installation is simple and does not require special construction skills. The result is a perfectly smooth classic version that can be painted, plastered or lined with various finishing materials.
Light colors will add a sense of space
Advice. To visually increase the area of a small room, you can use light glossy paint. Its shade should be selected in accordance with the style and color palette of the walls and furnishings.
Using lamps
If you want to create an original design in a low room, you can play with color on a single-level structure, use drawings and patterns applied using stencils and the original arrangement of spotlights.
Decorating a single-level version with molding
It is worth remembering that the work area should be well and evenly illuminated, but above the dining area you can use dimmable lighting to create the necessary atmosphere.
Single level solutions
You can make the ceiling expressive and unique using various ornaments, patterns and images.
You can radically change a room and make it more spacious with the right selection of color schemes. Built-in spotlights can play the role of the main light source, with the help of which you can also make adjustments to the surrounding space.
Flat surfaces
An interesting effect can be achieved by gluing the cornice to the wall, stepping back some distance from the ceiling and attaching an LED strip to it. The power and color of such illumination may vary.
Two levels
In a modern style,
a two-level ceiling looks much more impressive than a single-level one. But it is important to take into account the height of the room - if it is less than 2.5 m, then such a design will have to be abandoned, since its implementation will require at least 15 cm from the height of the kitchen.
With a well-thought-out arrangement of levels and a combination of their heights, you can add additional volume and solve some interior problems. The higher part of the plasterboard structure is usually located in the center or in the work area.
Example of two levels
One of the positive qualities of drywall is that it can be given any shape, plus a combination of oval and rectangular fragments, snake or spiral shapes. It can be used to create combined ceiling structures when suspended ceilings or panels made of natural wood are used together with it.
It turns out very stylish
The presence of two levels allows you to achieve a more expressive effect when placing light sources. With their help, you can more clearly designate individual functional areas. Most often, the main light source is placed in the center, and several neon or LED lamps are located at the edges.
Using bright lamps, you can highlight the eating area, bar counter and kitchen workspace, and use light sources with lower brightness on the remaining surface of the ceiling.
Hanging option above the bar counter
It will turn out more impressive when combining glossy and matte surfaces, different shades and patterns.
Important! At the project development stage, the features of the room are carefully assessed. For example, the location of the duct, the distance from the main ceiling and the plasterboard structure that will be required to install lighting fixtures.
Design options for two-level solutions
You should know that the configuration of a plasterboard ceiling not only emphasizes the style of the interior, but can also visually change the shape of the room. Thus, you can visually “stretch” a square kitchen using a rectangle, which can be placed in the center of the room or above a certain functional area.
Playing with lighting
In a narrow and elongated room, on the contrary, in the area of the eating area, you can install a square plasterboard structure. You can make an accent central part of the room using the oval design of the second tier.
You can make the room visually higher using a “floating” design, when when attaching sheets of drywall around the perimeter, a gap of several centimeters is left for installing the LED strip.
Shapes or curves should be duplicated in interior design.
Important! If the furnishings are distinguished by strict lines, then the use of curly curves on the ceiling will be inappropriate. A podium in a working or dining area looks impressive, repeating the shape of the plasterboard ceiling above it.
Multiple levels
Multi-level option in the interior
A multi-level ceiling is a ceiling that has 3 or more tiers. Use is recommended in rooms whose height starts from 3 meters.
Cascading
This design is distinguished by the greatest expressiveness and decorativeness, thanks to the play of lines, colors, lighting and combinations of different textures.
Can be matte or glossy in combination with tension
In order to visually highlight all functional zones, a different number of levels can be made above each of them with spotlights located at the border of their intersection.
On several levels
When choosing a color, consider the following recommendations:
- In a small room, light shades are used;
- Rich dark colors on the ceiling are appropriate in rooms with a large area;
- Pastel colors make the room cozy;
- Bright, harsh colors can have a negative impact on your emotional state.
Plasterboard ceilings for large rooms
Large areas give free rein to imagination and a lot of ideas for creating an interesting ceiling space. The most common plasterboard ceilings for kitchens are two-level.
Curly frames fit well in spacious rooms. Complex models can depict various figures; most often they are located in the central part.
The transition between levels is decorated with abstract forms. Spectacular designs are achieved using patterned elements. Lately, soaring ceilings have become the center of attention.
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Previously, it was believed that there was a ceiling above your head and that was good; there was no need to decorate it and make it beautiful.
Currently, it is impossible to do without decorating the ceiling; it influences the design of the room and is considered a necessary part.
There is no need to leave the ceiling for later and think that it will not affect your interior in any way.
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